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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)

(Sweden, Born 1949)
Estimate
40 000 - 60 000 SEK
3 580 - 5 360 EUR
3 770 - 5 660 USD
Hammer price
36 000 SEK
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Finland: Kuvasto

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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
(Sweden, Born 1949)

From the series ”Uppslag”, 2008

Signed Dawid and dated 2008 and numbered 1/3. Pigment print 150 x 181 cm including the artist's frame.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the photographer by the current owner.

Exhibitions

Liljevalchs Konsthall, "Hybris", 12 April - 25 May 2008.

More information

The work shows a spread in Bruce Chatwin's book "In Patagonia" published in 1977.

Artist

Dawid is one of Sweden’s most notorious photographers, and was a pioneer in conceptual photography. He had his breakthrough in 1983 with the exhibition “Rost” at the Fotografiska Museum. Dawid pushes the boundaries to what is considered photography, At first glance, his images possess strong aesthetic values, but upon closer inspection, the depicted objects, which appear in all their everyday ordinariness, seem to open up anew. The images undergo a kind of metamorphosis and acquire meanings beyond the merely denoted.

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